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ReviewCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne1994

Frailty in elderly people: an evolving concept.

K Rockwood, R A Fox, P Stolee, D Robertson, B L Beattie

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Review in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 189 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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189citing papers in PubMed, 11 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

189 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  9. Depression and frailty in later life: a systematic review.Clinical interventions in aging · 2015
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  14. Prospective care of elderly patients in family practice. Is screening effective?Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 1998
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  15. How human and animal frailty index studies can inform each other: a brief narrative review.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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  20. Social and clinical frailty indices in aging mice: a comparative analysis of longitudinal and cross-sectional designs.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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129 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

K RockwoodDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
R A Fox
P Stolee
D Robertson
B L Beattie

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Frail ElderlyAgedHealth PolicyHumansModels, TheoreticalSocioeconomic Factors

Identifiers

PMID8313261
PMCPMC1486322

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